An archaeology of digital things: social, political, polemical

The investigation of digital things has been central in my subsequent research on the impact of digital technology on archaeological knowledge production (and the attending analogue echoes), investigating how digital technology can reveal interstitial spaces for new experiences of and connections to...

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Published in:Antiquity 2021-12, Vol.95 (384), p.1590-1593
Main Author: Morgan, Colleen
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Archaeology
Climate
Debate
Digital technology
Excavation
Global warming
Historic artifacts
Interdisciplinary aspects
Investigations
Mining
Politics
Technology
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Summary:The investigation of digital things has been central in my subsequent research on the impact of digital technology on archaeological knowledge production (and the attending analogue echoes), investigating how digital technology can reveal interstitial spaces for new experiences of and connections to the past, and on how archaeologists can interpret digital things. [...]I follow Russell (2020) in using the term ‘AFK’ (away from keyboard) in lieu of ‘analogue’, ‘real world’ or IRL (in the real world) to note non-digital things or experiences, as it highlights the slippage in a dualistic construction of digital/non-digital, de-centring the perception of AFK as ‘real’ and emphasising the realness of digital experiences. A climate-aware archaeological investigation of scale and environment could help us understand how digital mining of a different kind, for example, bitcoin, is hastening global warming (Mora et al. 2018).
ISSN:0003-598X
1745-1744
DOI:10.15184/aqy.2021.125